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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It sucks for livestreams on youtube too, since it only starts downloading the next chunk of video when it's almost done playing through the current chunk and if you experience a hiccup, then youtube's solution is to send you back in the livestream (amount depends on latency setting of the streamer) so instead of getting a nice live stream, you could be going back as far as around 20 seconds in the past, so if you want to participate then you're going to be that slow on your reaction. Instead of waiting for the full 5 seconds of the buffer to play through before downloading the next chunk, I wish they'd query for the next chunk before then and not only that, but if there's a hiccup, don't send the stream back by so much, because also if you fall too far behind then it skips ahead. It's all over the place.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Has YouTube live streaming just shit the bed for anyone else this past week? That and the main page has been laggy to the point I'm being brought the wrong videos when I click on something. I assume it's because of uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

I used to be able to load up a bunch of videos in different tabs. Close the laptop and drive into the bush to watch shit and smoke a joint.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also clicking on some previous segment and NOT having the video load again. Idle for too long and the video unloads.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And now you get a bonus ad when you skip back too!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That shit infuriates me. I sometimes get distracted, skip back like 30 seconds, and get 30 seconds of unskippable ads. Fuck me.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I used to queue videos up the night before, then be able to watch them on the ride to school. Then one day you couldn't do that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

It took like an hour for an image of the Ultra 64 (N64) controller to load on my screen from the reveal in Japan. I remember waiting as each line of the image would slowly appear on a grey scale laptop screen over dial up. My eleven year old mind was blown, worth it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

There use to be a feature in Internet Explorer where you could download a local copy of a webpage and specify how many links deep you wanted it to go. It maxed out at 5, which would grab the entirety of any fansite I pointed it at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yep. They want you to buy premium and download them now

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[–] [email protected] 215 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe someone put in pictures what I've been playing out in my mind all along.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

You made the comic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The only time I notice it not working that way still is if my internet cuts out or the page itself is having problems and it won't load at all. Otherwise it loads the entire video pretty quickly. Like don't even have to pause it to see the gray line getting lighter because it goes so fast it's done loading a 20 minute video within the first 30 seconds of said video.

Now, if I am watching cable TV on the other hand... That shit buffers like crazy. And it's even weirder that I have cable internet. How is my internet faster than the TV when they use the same lines?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It's called DASH protocol and it's designed to only have a small adaptive bandwidth buffer. The whole video will never buffer, only a small percentage of it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought the connection I was on before was pathetic dog shit (moved rural and went from 1g to 100mbps up/down at both) and the only issues I ever had was specifically peacock because that app is designed to work just poorly enough that I'll struggle with it

Literally haven't thought about video buffering since like... 2014, 2013? Unless of course my Internet drops out. And that includes on mobile devices

I shudder to think what y'all are running on

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

The secret is that 90% of the time for 90% of people, the current method of "just in time" buffering works as good or better. Especially if you're on your phone you don't want to be paying for buffering data far into the future.

But the 10% of the time that it DOESN'T work when it usually does, really sticks in your brain so everyone has the experience of it not working now.

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